R.K. Cowles

Book of Matches Poem by R.K. Cowles

So who is this Diddle Diddle? Why had someone mention to him or her? That the cat had a fiddle In reality it was a trumpet Since it was actually a violin Besides it was string-less Since the strings were brutally ripped off By the Nine of Bombay Bicycle club And buried in Old McDonald's farm Because the cat's playing was cruel Upon its good ear Unfortunately its trumpet playing was even worse A suggestion from Jack Sprat's wife That the trumpet should be ridden over By little Red Riding Hood's hummer The cow did not leapt over the moon It was either tipped over by someone Or tipped over by a tornado Or it was on its side By drinking water that Wee Willie Winkie spiked With alcohol from Old Mother Hubbard's liquor cabinet It is possible they thinking the moon was made of cheese They had assumed it was the cow That leapt over the moon Yet, it was actually Hansel and Gretel That flew to the moon Upon Little Bo-Beep's winged sheep As they forced upon the moon Into its earthen torso a candy cane From the Good Ship Lollipop Then continued their flight in another direction And landed upon a shoe-shaped planet called 'Wonderland' In a galaxy called 'OZ' far, far away As they try to convince three bears in a well That they have disproved the moon is made of cheese And that it is absurd there is a man in the moon Since the bears did not understand them They try to convince Mary's lamb That was being babysat by Bessy Brooks Unfortunate the natives of 'Wonderland' Did not understand Hungarian Nor any other language on the planet Hansel and Gretel had came from The little dog did not laugh It was Poe's raven that did After it sang a song of sixpence The dog had bitten Georgie Porgie Who had pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall And onto the Big Bad Wolf Because he was a sore loser from losing his marbles To Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee The dish never ran away with the spoon It ran away with the funnel to the Butterfly Ball While the spoon ran away with the saucer To 'Never, Never Land' And the parer hid inside the Cat in the Hat with the corer Somewhere in Toyland The bowl ran away with the butter knife That made no sense Since you're not able to scoop liquids Out of a bowl with it I guess it could be true, opposites do attract But what puzzles me is Who ran away with the Mad Hatter's toothpick